Orem, UT Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Orem City Code Section 19-2-10, adopted with the original 1990 traffic code and amended by Ordinance No. O-2017-0005 on February 28, 2017, bars any 'procession or parade except a funeral procession' from occupying, marching, or proceeding along any city street without a permit issued by the Chief of Police. The application requirement is specific: organizers must state the time of the event, the place of formation, the proposed line of march, the destination, and 'such other reasonable information as the Chief of Police may require,' giving the department discretion to ask for security plans, expected crowd size, or road-closure needs before signing off.

Funeral processions are the only category the section exempts outright, so church parades, holiday parades, protest marches, and charity walk routes on public streets all fall under the same permit gate. Once a parade is proceeding under a valid permit, Section 19-2-10 lets the Chief of Police authorize the procession to disregard traffic-control devices such as stop signs and signals, but only 'provided it may be done safely,' meaning officers can revoke that latitude or station traffic control at intersections along the route. The section sits in Article 19-2 (Rules of the Road) rather than a special-events or business-license chapter, so it operates purely as a traffic-control permit administered by the Police Department, separate from any park-use reservation or vendor permit an event might also need elsewhere in the code.